This reminds me of the time I accidentally set off a bazooka. It was embarrassing. And it cost me $25,000 to rebuild the neighbor’s barn.
Posted on 01/27/2024 7:43:48 AM PST by JonPreston
Poland’s top police official told a radio broadcaster that a grenade launcher that was a present from Ukrainian officials accidentally exploded while he was moving it in his office last week.
The explosion occurred on Wednesday morning at national police headquarters in Warsaw. Amid media reporters speculating on the incident, the Interior Ministry issued a statement on Thursday saying that a gift from Ukraine had exploded, and that Szymczyk and another person suffered minor injuries.
There were no other details, but the report suggested that neither the Ukrainians nor the Poles believed the launchers had any explosive potential.
One had been transformed into a loudspeaker.
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Some day Poland will COME TO ITS SENSES and realize that getting along with Russia is their best path to peaceful and prosperous future.
There is a reason why stereotypes never die.
Naw. Some relationships cannot be peaceful.
Ever been divorced? There is an example.
Also, look at Japan vs either Korea or China. Never gonna be friends.
This reminds me of the time I accidentally set off a bazooka. It was embarrassing. And it cost me $25,000 to rebuild the neighbor’s barn.
Sometimes the jokes write themselves.
You said it first!
Loudspeaker goes BOOM. Nobody looked when they got it?
rebuild the neighbor’s barn.
You built it better, just saying.
In my lifetime, Germany, Japan, and Vietnam have gone from enemies to allies and/or trade partners. But Americans are expected to choose sides in the centuries-long hate between European nations? No thanks. Russia is not my enemy.
Already posted to FR during that period.
Oopsie . . .
no it wasn't.
“Loudspeaker goes BOOM.”
Are they SURE it wasn’t rap crap?
FR hall monitors?
Your linked story is from 2022, not 2023 in your thread title.
Year of the story is incorrect in the thread title.
You take the pin out of the grenade, then while holding the grenade firmly throw the pin at the target.
is there something wrong with you?
And, on a side note, where did Ukraine get the grenade launcher that they “gifted” to Poland ? ? ?
“And the Lord spake, saying, ‘’First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin....”
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